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G.-B,. OSBORN. SUSPENDING ATTACHMENT FOR PLAQUES, FRAMES,&0. No. 291,221.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. OSBORN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENDING ATTACHMENT FOR PLAQUES, FRAMES, 86c.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of, Letters Patent No. 291,221, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed Augustll, 1883. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. OSBORN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have v invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspending Attachments for Plaques, Frames, 850., of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the suspension of disks, as plaques or similar devices; and the invention consists in the combination of a chain and a hook with a stiff bifurcated hanger in such a manner as to support the disk or plaque in position as suspended and at the same time support it at a proper angle from the wall or corresponding to the heights, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the device supporting a plaque. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the ring and hooks for supporting the plaque at an inclination.

The stiff bifurcated hanger A may be made of wire, bent and twisted together to form an eye, a, its extremities being provided with hooks A A, to support the lower edge of the plaque B, the upper edge being supported by the hook O in the chain D, which is suspended by the ring E. Consequently the disk or plaque being suspended between the three hooks may be held in any position required, and when the ring at F is placed at the upper end of the chain the plaque will be held in a vertical position, or nearly so, as shown at Fig. 2; but when the ring E is placed near the center or to ward the center, as in Fig. 3, then the plaque will lean or tilt outward, as at Fig. 3, and thus by the variations of the ring on the chain a variation of the inclination of the plaque from the vertical to any inclined position may be obtained, and, in fact, by sliding the ring to the center of the suspending-rods the plaques may be supported in a horizontal position, or parallel to the ceiling, so that the face of the plaque will be directly downward.

Ofcourse there is nothing new in supporting plaques upon hooks or even at an inclination; but I believe that I am the first to combine a stiff bifurcated hanger with a hooksuspension chain. It will be readily observed that the stiff hanger must necessarily be effective on all sizes and forms of plaque and similar devices large enough to reach across its hooks A A.

I claim 1. The suspension device for plaques and the like, composed of a stiff bifurcated hanger, constructed substantially as described, and a chain provided with hooks or loops, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the stiff bifurcated hanger, constructed substantially as described,

the chain provided with hooks or loops, and the adjustable ring on the chain, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness wherof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE R. OSBOR-N. 

